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At the publishing company “Fujin Shunju,” union executives Date, Kuroki, Imoto, and others were having a heated argument with President Ogawa over the raise of employees’ wages. Kuroki returns to his apartment and receives a call from the company president. Kuroki replied, “I have gone on an indefinite strike.” He used his position as vice chairman to sell information to the company. The president had promised him an important position in the future. That night, Kuroki met Yoshishige at a bar. The two were close friends who were involved in left-wing movements during their student days. There was also a physical relationship. Read More »

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There’s a scene in “Greener Grass,” written and directed by Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe (who also co-star), where four families in golf carts sit at a four-way intersection. Everyone gestures at everybody else: “You go,” “Oh, no, you go, I insist…” And so they sit at the intersection forever, smiles frozen on their faces, in a standoff of psychotic politeness. If you’re at a four-way intersection, someone has to go first, someone has to allow themselves to be waved on through. In “Greener Grass,” nobody dares.Read More »

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Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off. Harrington himself described the film thus: ‘A satirical comment on middle-class life frames a dream-like continuity in which the protagonist pursues an illusory object of desire.’Read More »

Rosalie has a secret—her face and body are covered in hair. She’s concealed her hirsutism all her life, shaving to be accepted in polite society. But her perspective changes when Abel, an indebted bar owner unaware of her secret, marries her for her dowry. Will Abel be able to love the real her?Read More »

Carefully constructed in Tourneur’s typical style – akin, as Chris Fujiwara put it, to a Chinese-box structure – this first in the series What Do You Think? (Tourneur directed the third as well) plays on one of his favorite themes: the attempt to rationalize a series of extraordinary things that happen to the main character.Read More »

The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.Read More »

A man accepts a challenge to act as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for one day only, and makes such a success of it that soon he is embroiled in political intrigue.Read More »

In Ancona, Giovanni is a therapist, whose 17-year-old son Andrea is accused of stealing a rare ammonite fossil from his school. Andrea is suspended and protests his innocence, but later confesses to his mother Paola he and his friend stole it as a prank, and intended to return it before it broke. Giovanni and Andrea make plans to go jogging together, but Giovanni is called to the distant home of a patient who is severely distressed about a possible cancer diagnosis. Instead, Andrea goes scuba diving with a friend and swims into an underwater cave, where he accidentally drowns. Giovanni, Paola and their daughter Irene are left to mourn. Giovanni investigates the diving equipment model and becomes suspicious that Andrea’s was defective, but Paola reminds him the verdict was that it was functioning properly. Giovanni, once a distant observer of his patients’ struggles, begins having difficulty analyzing them, particularly the one he went to see on the day Andrea died, against whom he shows signs of impatience and hostility.Read More »

In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. From the initial peccadillo to the final drama, each action leads to a more violent reaction of vengeance, each treated with the excess and cruelty that he himself displayed.Read More »